Ravens vs. Bills Clash Tonight: AFC Favorites Battle

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00:00A monster game tonight in Baltimore, the Ravens host the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo with a win

00:10very well could find themselves positioned as AFC favorites. The Ravens right now with

00:17their win against Dallas, I don't know if save the season is too strong, but now they're

00:22still favorites to win the AFC North Cincinnati not handling business. Their favorite win

00:28this football game and it feels like the conferences, the usual suspects with Baltimore, Buffalo

00:34and Kansas City looking like the best teams overall. But if you are the Ravens as a two

00:40and a half point home favorite total now 46 and a half, Lacey, it feels like if you want

00:46to solidify again, your spot is one of the true Super Bowl contenders. You got to protect

00:51home field tonight. Absolutely. I have to get Derek Henry back involved. We saw him

00:55break out with a huge performance, 151 yards on the ground. Slowly. They've implemented

01:01him in regards to the receiving game, 23 yards on one reception. If they could do that, you

01:06get that defense running sideline to sideline, and then you could utilize the rushing attack

01:11and you could utilize Lamar on the perimeter. So we'll see how this plays out. And if you

01:15get up, do not get complacent, be aggressive, look to close this game out. Just because

01:20you have a fourth quarter lead the way they did against Las Vegas, you cannot get inconsistent.

01:26And that's the biggest thing tonight. If they jump up early, Baltimore one and two against

01:306.6 yards per play this season, which is fantastic. But also, you know, what's interesting about

01:34their one and two record, like they go on the road to Kansas City. Okay. They lost that

01:38game. You figured they would have an easy victory at home, but they didn't get that

01:41easy victory against Vegas. Then they go on the road against the Dallas Cowboys and they

01:45pick up the victory. So whatever's, if I would have told you they would have lost game one,

01:48game two, lost game three. Okay. I wanted to not so bad. It just got heightened with

01:51that Owen to start, but I thought they were really good against the Dallas Cowboys overall.

01:55I need more out of say flowers. I need more out of the passing game. Joe, I understand

01:58how good Derrick Henry is. And yes, the formality of this football team is we want to be fast,

02:03but we want to be physical and we want to run the ball. They did that with Derrick Henry.

02:06And as I told you already, love him to score in any time touchdown. But if I'm getting

02:09to the passing game, I don't think we can just run the football today and beat the Buffalo

02:13bills. No, he has to get over his prop today. Uh, two Oh four and a half is Lamar's passing

02:18prop. And to Donny's point, Zay flowers, Rashad Bateman, even Andrews and likely they have

02:23to be more consistent with the passing attack as well. That could open up the Russian game

02:27as well. I'm not saying go away from the run, but be more aggressive, especially against

02:32that Buffalo defense. I will just say though, Lamar game number one through two 73 through

02:37the air game. Number two gets to two 47. The only reason he was at 182, he only threw the

02:42ball 15 times. They didn't need to throw the ball anymore. And that game was a complete

02:46runaway and down the back stretch there. It wasn't even like, Oh, they got conservative.

02:52Dallas started to control the possession. They got an onside kick that went back their

02:55way. So I would just say, I think the Ravens have been solid in either area offensively

03:01here. I think the questions come tonight on the Ravens defensively who have allowed big

03:07passing totals in all three of their football games so far and go up against Josh Allen,

03:12who is the rightful current MVP favorite, who is playing the best football maybe of

03:17his career and certainly the cleanest football of his career. Josh Allen throwing an interception.

03:23You could set your watch to Josh Allen to go in consecutive games without an interception

03:28was an absolute rarity. He hasn't thrown a pick yet this season. Books are expecting

03:33one tonight. Minus one 40 is a strong number for a guy who hasn't turned it over yet this

03:39season. And that's, I think, one of the really big things to watch. Again, not discrediting

03:44what Buffalo has done. This is a huge game. This is Sunday night. This is the Baltimore

03:49Ravens, the reigning number one seed in this conference. How does Josh play, even if it's

03:55a loss? But do we get those two interception games from Josh Allen again, where we go?

04:00All right. Maybe the again, protection we saw was a little bit fluky. One thing I'm

04:06expecting is Dalton Kincaid to break through his thirty eight and a half total. The tight

04:11ends have really performed well this season against the Ravens. Ninety for Brock Bowers

04:16and well as Jake Ferguson in consecutive weeks against this defense. I still think when it's

04:21all said and done, Kincaid is the top guy for Josh Allen. I'm playing him over his thirty

04:26eight and a half. That's a good look. I look to Keon Coleman to get more involved and I'll

04:30get involved. I'll talk about that in a little bit. But to your point about, you know, throwing

04:34interceptions, the biggest change I see Josh Allen, he's distributing the football to

04:39multiple receivers. Shakir's gotten involved. Ty Johnson, when he's in there, James Cook,

04:44Kincaid, a little Dawson Knox. It hasn't been, you know, elite wide receivers, but it shows

04:49that he's poised, he's confident and he's going through his reads and progressions.

04:54And that's why he's limiting turnovers. He actually might be a better quarterback without

04:58Stefan Diggs in that lineup because he has to look for secondary receivers, Donnie. And

05:03that's what you're seeing through the first three.

05:05You just hit the nail on the head. I was going to bring up that same point and I'm glad you

05:07went down that path because sometimes you're saying I have to force feed this guy even

05:11if it's not the right read, but I just have to keep him in the game because at halftime

05:14he might spike his helmet and tell me he's going home with his own football. So now you're

05:17looking to make those read progressions and it makes sense. But also, you know, it's been

05:20looking phenomenal on this team, James Cook, and that helps your quarterback out. If you

05:24can get those easy yards running and also receiving out of the backfield, it only helps

05:28at this point. I want to see how aggressive the Buffalo Bills will be tonight. I want

05:32to see if they face adversity. You might say, look at those first three games, not

05:35much adversity. Did you watch game number one down two touchdowns to the Arizona Cardinals?

05:40Outside of that first half, they've been flawless in their game planning, Kevin.

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